Any member of the Council and any City official, either elected or appointed, may be removed from his office by the Council for any of the following causes: Official misconduct, incompetence, habitual drunkenness, neglect of duty, or gross immorality. Such removal shall not be made except upon charges regularly filed and acted upon as follows: The charges against any such officer shall be reduced to writing and entered of record by the Council, and a summons shall thereupon be issued by the City Clerk containing a copy of the charges and requiring the officer named therein to appear and answer the same on a day to be named therein, which summons may be served in the same manner as a summons commencing an action may be served, and the service must be made at least five days before the return day thereof, and it shall require the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to Council to remove any such official. The circuit court of Kanawha County shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Council for any of the causes herein mentioned.
The Mayor, or any other City Official having the power of appointment, shall have the right to remove any of his appointees and appoint another qualified person in his place, but such removal shall be made by means of a writing served upon such official so removed; and all the rights and powers of such official shall cease and end from the time of such service, provided that the person so removed shall have the right of appeal to Council, which may overrule the action of the Mayor, or other official.